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Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Fine/Very Good. ILLUSTRATIONS BY: YEATS, JACK B; BROWN, VICTOR; O'SULLIVAN, SEAN; PEET, E.C; KERNOFF, HARRY; MCGONIGAL, MAURICE MUSIC BY DUFF, ARTHUR. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF W.B. YEATS'S BROADSIDES, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY W.B. YEATS AND F.R. HIGGINS AT END OF INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND ACCOMPANIED BY BREATHTAKING HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Collection of 12 broadsides originally issued individually from January-December 1935. Containing both traditional and new Irish ballads written by Yeats, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Colum, and others. With engraved music throughout. Numerous evocative and emotional hand-colored woodblock illustrations, including many by Jack B. Yeats, brother of the famed W.B Yeats.  Only 300 copies printed, with only 100 copies bound and signed, making this production EXTREMELY RARE. Signed by Yeats and Higgins at the end of their preface, Anglo-Irish Ballads. "Yeats is now seen as… Read More

New York: np, 1903. First Edition. nb. Very Good. EXCEEDINGLY RARE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY ALICE BOUGHTON. ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SIGNED YEATS PHOTOS. A rare bust portrait of Yeats as a young man, signed and inscribed by Yeats to U.S. politician and later U.S. secretary of state Bainbridge Colby: "To Mr. Bainbridge Colby with kind regards from WB Yeats March 1904." Inscribed in ink on the flush board mount beneath the photograph. On the verso of the photograph mount is written in pencil: "Young Yeats photo [????] not to be used without Mr. Yeats permission." The photograph was taken by the photographer Alice Boughton during Yeats's first American tour (November 11, 1903 - March 9, 1904), almost certainly on December 22, 1903, when Yeats's friend and champion, the Irish-American collector John Quinn, arranged for the sitting with Boughton. Quinn wrote to Alice Boughton on January 7, 1904, to thank her for four prints (two solio prints and two platinum… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. original dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF YEATS'S COMPREHENSIVE AND ACCOMPLISHED COLLECTION THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS , ONE OF ONLY 2000 COPIES PRINTED. "Yeats is now seen as one of a handful of Irish writers whose influence and example helped create twentieth-century modernist literature in the English language... His huge international reputation is securely based on the mystery and grandeur of his late verse and the poignancy of his love poetry, but he first came to fame as the exotically Celtic poet of a 'new' nationalist Ireland: almost single-handed, he made Irishness culturally fashionable. Spearheading a great cultural renaissance, he moved into his maturity as the voice of his country" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). "Much as he seeks in this long volume, bringing together 64 poems written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, images of order and serenity, he is still drawn to the wild, the… Read More

New York: np, 1932. First edition. Fine. STUNNING SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY MARTIN VOS. A classic studio portrait of Yeats by the New York portrait photographer Martin Vos, signed "W.B. Yeats" in ink in the bottom right corner. Vos was a popular portrait photographer in New York in the 1930s, known for his portraits of celebrities, most notably Albert Einstein (a famous photoshoot with Einstein and Tagore) and Franklin Roosevelt. Yeats visited New York from October 1932 through January 1933 at which time this photograph was presumably taken. Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Archivally double-matted and framed to an overall size of 14.5 x 16.5 inches. New York: c.1932. Silver gelatin print. In fine, nearly perfect condition. Signed Yeats photos are very rare on the market.